The appropriately titled Curtains, Eileen Quinlan’s spare exhibition at Miguel Abreu, unsettles in ways few shows dare. The 24 black-and-white prints, all gelatin silver, communicate a spirit that is both cryptic and choleric. They dampen, these images, as in deaden. They silence. One feels in their presence as if having stepped into the afterings of […]

The press release for Ascension describes an exhibition where “fragmentation abounds in multitudinous ‘selves’, highlighting large-scale interactions between national and, arguably, mystical realms.” My impression, however, in moving through the two-level group show was that the artists in the gallery’s meandering lower level were engaged in a more interesting and urgent discussion about a virulent […]

Whether you see them as architects, sculptors, painters, or installation artists, one thing is clear: Lang/Baumann are here to bend your mind. Their large-scale installations consistently challenge the boundaries between the surreal and the commonplace, and their book, More is More, is a vivid portrayal of their best work. More is More is a photo […]

As Stefan Helmreich describes them, auditory chimeras are sonic events created by “sieving one sound through another.” This act combines the pitch and texture of one sound with the envelope (attack, decay, sustain, and release) of another. It is a sort of translation, where the material being translated acquires characteristics of the material it is […]

This past October, famed UK street artist Banksy spent a month in New York City, leaving behind 31 provocative works in public spaces scattered throughout the city’s five boroughs. Each new piece threw the press and public deeper into the kind of frenzy usually reserved for pop culture events like a new Harry Potter book […]

Mass, plane, line, sphere, and cylinder—all of these abstractionist tropes make repeated appearance in Moved Objects, a new book of work by Georgia Hutchinson and Arini Byng which has been published by Perimeter Editions. These recognizable geometric volumes are carefully placed to point a finger out of the land of sculpture and back towards painting, […]

Who needs Banksy when you have Zansky as a natural resource?  His fire drawings now on view at Stefen Stux are a remarkable mix of skill and innovation. These large scale line drawings have the look of faded sepia sketches of Da Vinci or badly faded enlarged photocopies of twentieth century cave paintings. Upon closer […]

In no part of Clouds; An Illustrated Taxonomy does the book claim to be art, but it has to be the most beautiful scientific guide on the market. This sleek little volume is bound in simple-yet-elegant silver covers and printed on matte black paper; it is a far cry from its inspiration, The International Cloud […]

Indian artist Raqib Shaw’s monumental exhibition Paradise Lost at Pace Gallery, New York, of large meticulously painted fabulations rendered like an overlay of inlaid mosaic tiles is exhilarating beyond belief.  The viewer is drawn at once to its spellbinding craftsmanship and exuberance, and the everlasting lure of decadence. But in fact Shaw delivers quite the […]

In the contemporary art world, one of the most challenging undertakings is to curate a group show. Featuring the recent works of six artists of diverse backgrounds, the current exhibition at Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden asks bold questions. Is the centuries-old quarrel between painting and sculpture still relevant and how can an artist complicate […]